How to prepare the best salad with crab sticks

Salad with crab sticks a gift for any hostess. Crab sticks do not require any additional processing, the recipes are simple, the salads are always delicious and for some reason they are particularly fond of children.

Crab sticks - this is the finished product, which consists of a dense white mass. This mass is called surimi and it is made from white fish fillet. Surimi translated from Japanese means "washed fish mixture. It surimi, instead of crab meat you can find in crab sticks from the nearest store.

From crab sticks do not only salads, but all kinds of snacks, which are very impressive looking on the festive table: sticks you can promote, stuffed, served in batter or spread with sauce.

Who invented salad with crab sticks? It is now perhaps impossible to find the inventor of the cook, but most likely, it happened in Japan, which is home to crab sticks. Only in this country crab salad was not cheap, because the sticks were made of expensive crab meat.

But even in the distant past, back in the 1100s the Japanese have noticed that minced white fish, rinsed with water, can become the basis of very tasty dishes. Products from this stuffing began to use in cooking.

In the 20th century in Japan are massively sell fish balls and sausages, which was called "Kamaboko". And now on the shelves in Japan you will find many products made from surimi. Soon worldwide product called "crab sticks" received wide acclaim.

Crab sticks appeared on the Russian market for more than 20 years ago and became very popular very quickly. Especially valuable was the fact that the sticks are a low-calorie dish. Calorie salad of crab sticks can only add other ingredients and sauces.

How to cook salad with crab sticks? Here there is no single answer - all recipes is correct and all very tasty. A classic recipe that Housewives often used for weddings is crab sticks, canned corn, boiled eggs, mayonnaise and spices.

Most importantly the taste of the salad with crab sticks - correct crab sticks. So seriously consider their choice. Do not buy a cheap product, carefully read the packaging: it is necessarily the first place should be surimi. The cheaper sticks, the more soy protein and not surimi. And if no part of the surimi - do not buy these crab sticks at all.

Choose sticks with natural flavors or dyes. Sticks must be firm, clean, pay attention to the color only on the outside, white meat should not be painted.

Bought crab sticks? It's time to make a salad!

Salad with crab sticks and oranges
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You will need: 5 eggs, 250 - 300 grams of crab sticks, 300 grams of sweet corn, 2 oranges, mayonnaise, garlic.
Preparation: Boil the eggs and chop. Crab sticks cut. Oranges, peeled and divided into segments, cut into very carefully. Corn separated from the juice and mix with other ingredients, mayonnaise and salt to taste.
Salad with crab sticks with ham and mushrooms
You will need: 150 grams of mushrooms (fresh or pickled), 300 grams of crab sticks, 300g sweet pepper, 100 grams of ham, 300 grams of potatoes, vegetable oil, salt pepper, olives, parsley.
Preparation: Fresh mushrooms to boil in salted water with spices, marinated simply be separated from the brine. Potatoes, ham and mushrooms cut into cubes, pepper strips, crab sticks cut across and into small pieces along. Mix and season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and vegetable oil. Garnish with parsley and olives.

Salad with crab sticks and red cabbage

You will need: 300 grams of red cabbage, 2 Apple, 1 onion, 2 tbsp canned green peas, 0.5 tsp. mustard, 4 tbsp mayonnaise 1 bunch fresh dill, 1 lemon, 1 green Apple for decoration, salt to taste.

Preparation: Cabbage clean from the top of the leaves, chop. Add salt and mash with hands to give juice. Dill finely chopped, leaving a couple of sprigs for decoration. Lemon dipped in hot water, squeeze out the juice. All the Apple peel from the core. One Apple salad cut into strips. Peel the onion, cut into half rings, scalded with boiling water. Crab sticks cut. In a bowl combine the cabbage, peas, Apple, onion and crab sticks. Mix the mustard, lemon juice, mayonnaise, season the salad and mix well. Put the slide in a salad bowl, garnish with green peas, Apple slices and sprigs of dill.

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